Nic Boie
Senior Software Developer at WebVolta
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNic Boie is a Senior Software Developer based in Minneapolis with 12 years of experience building and scaling full-stack web applications. As a co-founder of WebVolta and Devs for Change he blends entrepreneurial drive with pro-bono nonprofit work, delivering design-forward web products and software consulting. He has deep Ruby on Rails expertise from lead roles at Bluewater, The Dolan Company, and others, with hands-on experience integrating diverse APIs, AWS services, and legacy systems into scalable architectures. Nic maintains strong front-end and back-end fluency demonstrated by open-source contributions to ActiveAdmin-Mongoid where he improved UI filtering, sorting of embedded documents, and date-range handling. Known for leading initiatives, engaging clients, and keeping high test coverage and operational rigor, he favors pragmatic solutions that balance new product features with maintainability. Outside client work he mentors teams and volunteers technical skills to help nonprofits improve their web presence.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Metro State UniversityLakevilleNormandale Community College
Github Skills (9)
ruby-rails10
rails10
mongodb10
mongoid10
ruby10
testing9
capybara9
rspec9
user-interface8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
activeadmin/activeadmin-mongoid
Feb 2015 - Apr 2019
ActiveAdmin hacks to support Mongoid
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 38 commits, 33 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nic primarily contributed to the Active Admin integration with Mongoid, focusing on features and bug fixes related to the user interface and data handling. Their work included modifying filter functionalities, adjusting collection counts, and correcting date-range filtering. Additionally, they implemented enhancements for sorting by embedded document fields and made adjustments to the Active Admin configuration. The user's changes indicate a strong understanding of both the backend and frontend aspects of the Active Admin framework.
railsmongoidrubyactiveadminactiverecord
devs-for-change/main-site
Aug 2014 - May 2022
Main web presence for devs-for-change
Contributions:142 commits, 37 PRs, 50 pushes in 7 years 10 months
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